GridTracker - FT8

[Pages:80]GridTracker

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v.1.18.0406

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Table of Contents

RELEASE NOTES....................................................................................................................................5 WHAT IS GRIDTRACKER?....................................................................................................................6 INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................7 SETTINGS...............................................................................................................................................10

General................................................................................................................................................10 Application Status...........................................................................................................................11 Receive UDP Messages..................................................................................................................11 Forward UDP Messages.................................................................................................................11 Center Gridsquare...........................................................................................................................11 Share On-Air Status........................................................................................................................12 Check For New Version..................................................................................................................12 Clear All Settings............................................................................................................................12

AUDIO................................................................................................................................................13 Text-to-speech Voice.......................................................................................................................13 Speech Rate....................................................................................................................................13 Speech Pitch....................................................................................................................................13 Speech Volume...............................................................................................................................13 Phonetics.........................................................................................................................................14 File Audio Volume..........................................................................................................................14

MAP....................................................................................................................................................15 Current Mode..................................................................................................................................15 Current Map....................................................................................................................................15 Show Legend..................................................................................................................................15 Grid Decay Rate.............................................................................................................................16 Path Width......................................................................................................................................16 Clear on Band Change....................................................................................................................16 Hue..................................................................................................................................................16 Brightness.......................................................................................................................................16 Invert...............................................................................................................................................16 Effect...............................................................................................................................................16

LOGGING...........................................................................................................................................18 Logtype...........................................................................................................................................18 Menu...............................................................................................................................................18 Startup.............................................................................................................................................18 Details.............................................................................................................................................18 Band................................................................................................................................................19 Test..................................................................................................................................................19 Test Result......................................................................................................................................19 N1MM Logger................................................................................................................................19 Log40M Logger..............................................................................................................................19

ALERTS..............................................................................................................................................20 Alert Type.......................................................................................................................................20 Value...............................................................................................................................................20 Callsign...........................................................................................................................................20

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Gridsquare.......................................................................................................................................20 Notify Type.....................................................................................................................................21 Text-To-Speech (TTS)....................................................................................................................21 Media File.......................................................................................................................................21 Visual Popup...................................................................................................................................21 Repeat.............................................................................................................................................21 QSO and QSL lock.........................................................................................................................22 CHANGES..........................................................................................................................................23 ABOUT...............................................................................................................................................24 MAP AND ACTIVITY PANEL...............................................................................................................25 Grids....................................................................................................................................................25 QSO.....................................................................................................................................................25 QSL.....................................................................................................................................................25 LCD.....................................................................................................................................................25 Decodes...............................................................................................................................................26 Last......................................................................................................................................................26 DXCCs................................................................................................................................................26 WORKED...........................................................................................................................................27 CONFIRMED.....................................................................................................................................27 CALLSIGNS.......................................................................................................................................27 HISTORY............................................................................................................................................28 Even Cycles....................................................................................................................................28 Odd Cycles......................................................................................................................................28 Average...........................................................................................................................................28 Sum.................................................................................................................................................28 Clear................................................................................................................................................29 Export.............................................................................................................................................29 UNKNOWN DECODES....................................................................................................................30 FUNCTION ICONS................................................................................................................................31 Shadow Toggle....................................................................................................................................31 Push Pin...............................................................................................................................................31 Path Markers...................................................................................................................................33 Maidenhead.........................................................................................................................................35 Show Stats...........................................................................................................................................35 Settings................................................................................................................................................35 Load Adif.............................................................................................................................................35 Opening ADI(F)s............................................................................................................................36 Select band to view.........................................................................................................................37 QSO and QSL Lock.............................................................................................................................38 Audio Mute..........................................................................................................................................38 Conditions Information.......................................................................................................................39 PSK24..................................................................................................................................................39 QRX LotW and Club...........................................................................................................................39 On-Air Flag.........................................................................................................................................40 ACTIVITY AND STATUS......................................................................................................................41 status panel..........................................................................................................................................41 station information (QTH)...................................................................................................................43

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Legend.................................................................................................................................................43 UDP traffic..........................................................................................................................................44 GridTracker version.............................................................................................................................44

Copying Grid Contents...................................................................................................................47 Opening Grid Lookup Window......................................................................................................48 call sign lookup...............................................................................................................................49 Grid Information.............................................................................................................................50 EDITING SPEECH JSON FILES...........................................................................................................53 Phonetic Changes................................................................................................................................53 Geographic Nameplace Changes.........................................................................................................54 NOTES on WSJT-X JTDX and PSKReporter.........................................................................................56 PLATFORM NOTES...............................................................................................................................58 Windows..............................................................................................................................................58 Editing JSON Files.........................................................................................................................60 Windows 10....................................................................................................................................60 Mac......................................................................................................................................................61 Debian.................................................................................................................................................62 Raspbian..............................................................................................................................................63 phone.json................................................................................................................................................64 enums.json................................................................................................................................................65 CHANGELOG.........................................................................................................................................73 HARDWARE and SOFTWARE..............................................................................................................78 Tested Platforms:.................................................................................................................................79 Other....................................................................................................................................................80 Additional Credits...............................................................................................................................80

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RELEASE NOTES

In this release, the entire menu system has been rewritten to reduce the number of icons on the sidebar, and to consolidate all settings into a tabbed menu system.

UDP MultiCast has been implemented to compliment and expand on the current UDP forwarding to allow more options when setting up additional programs such as logging or other.

A couple display options for the sidebar were added to make it less busy, or to show the map in full screen (kiosk) mode.

At the time of writing, Germany and France have been added to the list of countries with individual states/provinces added. There may be more by the time this release is final. Or not. We're adding them as time allows.

Current Condition load times have been made dramatically faster. For those with slow or metered connections, you should see an immediate improvement.

Country flags added to popup tables.

Mouse left/right click behavior changed to make callsign lookup easier.

Time display now shows either local or UTC time.

The change to a tabbed menu and information system made a (mostly) complete rewrite of this document necessary. Sections have been moved to a hopefully more logical order, also. Errors or omissions may be present. Email gridtracker@ with any comments or suggestions.

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WHAT IS GRIDTRACKER?

GridTracker is a companion program for WSJT-X. It listens to WSJT-X or JTDX decodes and displays them on a map for Linux, Mac and Windows. Display on a large second monitor in your amateur radio club, hamfest or as a demonstration in a classroom. Everyone gets excited when they can see what you're doing!

Features:

Realtime Traffic Decoding to world map. Audio / Visual / Text-to-Speech Alerts on Callsign, DXCC, CQ

Designator, Grid and more. ADIF Log parsing. QSO log reporting. Complete DXCC, Country, Callsign Prefix recognition. Band activity from PSK-Reporter Maidenhead 4 and 6 wide views 100% offline mode available for field-day use. UDP Multicast message support. UDP message forwarding. State / Province / Locality information Decode history charting for propagation and radio performance

analysis. Active development with you in mind, tell us what you'd like to see!

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INTRODUCTION

Download the GridTracker for your OS at . This will be a single Windows executable that will install the program, a Mac .ZIP file, or a .DEB or .TAR for linux.

After installation, start by opening from the Icon or the Start Menu. GridTracker opens to a single window with two main sections. The Maps view on the left, and the GridTracker menu bar on the right.

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If offline maps are preferred, click the Settings Icon , and change settings from the Map tab.

The map view uses all the standard controls for zoom, pan and view.

Mousewheel + / Arrow keys PageUp/PageDown Home/End

- Zoom in and out - Zoom in and out - Left, Right, Up, Down - Map page up/down - Map page left/right

You can also us the + and ? symbol on the map to change zoom level, or the full screen icon .

NOTES:

If the map full screen icon is used, mouseover functions for grid or station data will not work as long as GridTracker is in kiosk mode. Hitting the map full screen icon again will return full functionality. Using the application window full screen function does not affect any GridTracker functions.

Direction arrows will not display in Offline mode.

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